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This book offers new perspectives on text/image hybridity in the context of life writing. Each chapter explores the very topical issue of how writers and artists combine two media in order to enhance the autobiographical narrative and experience of the reader. It questions the position of images in relation to text, both on the page and in terms of the power balance between media. It also shows how hybridity operates beyond a semantic and cultural balance of power, as the combination of text and images is able to produce content that would not have been possible separately. Including a range of life writing and different visual media, from paintings and photography to graphic memoirs and social media, this edited collection investigates the point at which an image, whether fixed or moving, enters the autobiographical act and confronts the verbal form. Arnaud Schmitt is a professor of American Studies at the University of Pau, France. His field of research is contemporary American literature and he has worked extensively on the concepts of autofiction and self-narration for almost two decades. His book, The Photographer as Autobiographer, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2022.

Intermediality. --- Creative nonfiction. --- Culture --- Prose literature. --- Non-Fiction Literature. --- Visual Culture. --- Narrative Text and Prose. --- Study and teaching.

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This edited collection offers a reappraisal of character as a precondition for caricature and addresses how the two began to merge, becoming increasingly interlinked over the course of the long eighteenth century. It emphasises the need to understand character more fully, arguing that the nuances and origins of caricature can only be appreciated in light of the genre’s prehistory and reliance on popular character types. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in approach, the collection makes use of a variety of theories and addresses fiction in its broadest sense, expanding and reconceptualising critical, historical and theoretical discussion of character. Chapters draw from disability studies, cultural materialism, gender studies and the history of sexuality, spatial theory and performance studies. Jennifer Buckley is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of English, Media, and Creative Arts at the University of Galway. Her research focuses on genre studies, book history, and sociability in the long eighteenth century, and she is completing a monograph titled Periodicalism, Fiction, and the Novel, 1700–1760: Ecologies of Print. Montana Davies-Shuck is an Independent Scholar. She was awarded her PhD in English and Creative writing from Northumbria University. Montana’s work focuses on the fop in the long eighteenth century, examining the political, social, and cultural valence of the figure. .

Literature, Modern --- Prose literature. --- Literature --- Eighteenth-Century Literature. --- Narrative Text and Prose. --- Literary Criticism. --- 18th century. --- History and criticism.

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This volume elucidates international biographical and narrative perspectives on how COVID-19 influenced people’s daily lives across different countries and contexts. It draws together global interdisciplinary scholarly contributions and conceptualizes the lived life as a complex, multilayered and multidimensional phenomenon that is constantly unfolding both in and across time. Significantly, this volume focuses on seldom-heard groups including persons diagnosed with HIV, COVID-19 dissenters, prisoners, essential workers, waste pickers, refugees and migrants. The chapters focus on the pandemic's multifarious impacts on people’s lived realities in personal and professional domains, exploring the complexity of people’s relationships with family, friends, interactions with colleagues and students and the centrality of emotions, to everyday human experiences, including grief, loss and loneliness as well as moments of joy and processes of personal renewal. This volume explores innovative questions, issues and challenges on the development and utilization of rich, biographical narrative methodologies during COVID-19, addressing important issues like power and voice, and pragmatic questions of how to do biographic research whilst socially distant. Contributions to this work illuminate the multidimensionality of human experiences, adaptability to adverse circumstances and the complexity of working through unanticipated global events whilst reimagining novel social futures.

Sociology --- Sociology. --- Prose literature. --- Ethnology. --- Biographical Research. --- Sociological Methods. --- Narrative Text and Prose. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Biographical methods. --- Methodology.

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Dies ist ein Open Access-Buch. - Der eigene Tod ist nicht zu bewältigen. Die Textsorte ‚Erzählung‘ ermöglicht aufgrund ihrer Eigenschaften jedoch die Bewältigung von Erfahrungen, die dem Tod ähneln sollen. Fiktionalem und faktualem Erzählen kommen dabei qua literarischer Konvention unterschiedliche Möglichkeiten zu. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele von Sterbeerzählungen von 1950 bis heute legt Andrea Klatt eine Systematik der Formen und Funktionen des Erzählens in Todesnähe vor. Außerdem werden drei Erzähltexte der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur in ausführlichen Fallstudien interpretiert und die unterschiedlichen Bewältigungsmechanismen darin verglichen: „Arbeit und Struktur“ von Wolfgang Herrndorf, „Tage wie Hunde“ von Ruth Schweikert und „Robinsons blaues Haus“ von Ernst Augustin. .

Literature, Modern --- Prose literature. --- Literature --- Contemporary Literature. --- Narrative Text and Prose. --- Literary Theory. --- Philosophy. --- 20th century. --- 21st century.

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"This book is a fascinating study on human creativity as it is expressed in transforming well-known, conventional, and clichéd proverbs by turning them upside down. A valuable resource for anyone interested in verbal humor and the human potential for linguistic play." -Zoltán Kövecses, Professor Emeritus, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, author of Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory (2020) "The authors provide their readers with a kaleidoscope of proverb alterations, punning, and different devices of verbal humour, leading them skillfully into a better understanding not only of the nature and quality of anti-proverbs, but how a given language community's worldview and attitude towards certain issues, norms and values change over time." -Melita Aleksa Varga, Associate Professor, University of Osijek, Croatia This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian, and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbsare by no means fossilized texts but are adaptable to different times and changed values. While anti-proverbs can be considered as variants of older proverbs, they can also become new proverbs reflecting a more modern worldview. Anti-proverbs are therefore a lingo-cultural phenomenon that deserves the attention of cultural and literary historians, folklorists, linguists, and general readers interested in language and wordplay. Anna T. Litovkina is Associate Professor at J. Selye University, Slovakia. She is a linguist, a folklorist, and a humour researcher. Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt is Chief Quality Officer at the Swiss agency "French, Italian and German in Switzerland". Her research interests lie in the field of applied linguistics. Péter Barta is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. He is a linguist and a paremiologist. Katalin Vargha is a research fellow in the Institute of Ethnology at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary. Her research interests include short forms of folklore and humor. Wolfgang Mieder is University Distinguished Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the founding editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship.

Semiotics --- Theatrical science --- Lexicology. Semantics --- lexicologie --- toneeltechniek --- theater --- semiotiek --- Lexicology. --- Semiotics. --- Comedy. --- Prose literature. --- Lexicolopgy / Vocabulary. --- Comedy Studies. --- Narrative Text and Prose.